With less than 10 months to go until the $5.2 billion Panama Canal expansion opens in April 2016, U.S. ports are implementing almost $30 billion in dredging and infrastructure improvements to handle Post-Panamax ships. Secondary market ports are poised to gain more market share....More

Americans just can’t get enough coffee, and that’s good news for coffee chains. Both domestic and international brands are opening new stores across the country, providing a plethora of choices for even the pickiest of coffee drinkers....More

Not only is the next Cascadia earthquake overdue, but the buildings and infrastructures of the cities it will hit along the coastline—including Portland and Seattle—are nowhere near ready for it....More

San Francisco-based seismic engineer Peter Yanev, writing in an op-ed in the New York Times in response to the 2010 earthquake in Chile, says there is, essentially, no such thing as an earthquake-proof building. So, how does Seattle look, in light of such information?

Realquidity is a Silicon Valley startup that launched a new only online marketplace in June for buying and selling fractional interests in existing commercial properties. NREI interviewed Realquidity co-founder and CEO Shawn Silk to get his insights on how the platform works....More

Investment sales volume now outpaces the figure recorded at the peak of the previous cycle in 2006, according to recently released figures from research firm Real Capital Analytics (RCA). Here we break down the numbers....More

Markets like Manhattan, Los Angeles and San Francisco experienced the highest investment sales volumes in the first half of this year. However, they were not necessarily the markets that saw the greatest sales growth.

“We describe this style of investing as low-risk, value-added. It combines a very nice income return for our investors, typically in the 8 percent range, with solid appreciation that comes from our ability to operate the real estate and add value through repositioning and leasing,” says Maddocks....More